or any other reason… im curious.

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    I left reddit because fuck them
    I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there’s just too much useful info to ignore it. But I’m not going there directly

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          imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.

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            What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.

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              One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.

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                It looks like most of their non-investor revenue comes from ads and data mining. I assume buyers only want human human views and data. With that in mind, what do you feel like is going on over there, and what will it lead to? Can they get users to pay enough to make an AI fantasy land? Will they defraud advertisers and data miners wi AI astroturf? It’s such a weird frontier. I wonder what fresh new horrors will emerge from the dystopia.

                Edit: Not strictly relevant, but interesting link:

                https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RDDT/financials/

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        What’s the issue with just using an adblocker? You cost them money to serve your queries but don’t make them any money provided you just browse and do not comment/post/vote

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    Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.

    It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.

    I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.

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    I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

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      Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though !cfb@fanaticus.social is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.

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        Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven’t seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.

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          Old reddit was so so useful this transition to everybody being loud with little depth of knowledge has been sad to watch.

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            The people who shouldn’t comment or reply ro any post are the ones who immediately chime in with advice there, they’ve even taken to giving you ai responses like mf, I am fully capable of opening chatgpt on my own if I wanted ai responses

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            Raised brow indeed!

            Holy shit the first thing I had to do when I got to Lemmy was block like 250 deep-fried-content accounts and communities. And I have to block something or somebody new almost daily here.

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            Yeah, okay, true, but – it’s like all the malice and narcissism of the whole group are concentrated in a very small number of individuals. Like Canada with their geese.

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    Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

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    I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

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    I’ll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit’s BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.

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      I was taking part in the blackout, but obviously Reddit the company did not listen, so I left. And here I am.

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      I also came here shortly before the full API bullshit. They announced it (months?) before, or there were at least hints from app developers about what was going to happen.

      By that point i already had a laundry list of other shit i was pissed off about at that site. So i knew that was finally time to leave and find somewhere else.

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    Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.

    Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.

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      I left when I couldn’t use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again

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      Likewise. Then I realized how much better lemmy is than reddit and never looked back. Way higher quality content and discussions here

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    My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I’m pretty active.